Genes and chance are a big part of living to 100, but lifestyle factors can play a role.freemixer/Getty Images There's a lot that a healthy lifestyle can do for your longevity. But in old age, a big ...

If humans living for 1,000 years seems like a complete stretch, aging expert João Pedro de Magalhães will do you one better: how about humans living for 20,000 years? The professor of molecular ...

The maximum lifespan of any human is around 100 years. Very few people live that long. The average human lifespan is believed ...

New research finds that humankind's once-steady rise in life expectancy is slowing down, raising the question of whether we'll be able to expand our lifespan much further. Reading time 4 minutes Our ...

According to Nature.com, scientists identified four major topological turning points across a lifespan: around 9 years old, ...

A scientist says that the human lifespan could be so short due to the dinosaurs. While that might sound a bit wild, especially since modern humans didn't live at the time that dinosaurs did, it all ...

What if tweaking your diet could add years—or even decades—to your life? According to research published in Cell Metabolism, adjusting one specific nutrient intake could be a key to longer, healthier ...

In the early 1900s, the average lifespan in the United States was about 54 years. As time has passed, the human lifespan has increased. By the mid-1900s, lifespan neared 65 for men and 70 for women.

A new study finds the human brain moves through five major developmental eras, marked by key turning points from childhood to ...

There is no scientific consensus on the fundamental question whether the probability distribution of the human life span has a finite endpoint or not and, if so, whether this upper limit changes over ...

There's a lot that a healthy lifestyle can do for your longevity. But in old age, a big part of the equation comes down to genetics. A new study suggests only a small percentage of adults will live to ...